Significant events in cinema history - The first lady.
Audrey Munson. The first (?) actress to appear fully nude in a mainstream movie (I specify mainstream as opposed to pornographic, stag, and nickelodeon peepshow movies). ‘
Inspiration’ (1915).
Those of you in and around New York City can view and admire her likeness. She was the model for several statues to be found at various locations in NYC.
For her groundbreaking contribution to the cinematic arts, Audrey Munson has now been inducted into
The Men’s Room hall of fame.
It was love at first sight. She was beautiful and mysterious, and I had to find out more about her. The story I found involved high culture in New York, spectacle in San Francisco, scandalous behavior in the nascent film industry, the leading lights of American Beaux Arts sculpture, murder, insanity, the U.S. dime and half-dollar, and sad and strange biography that I will remember for a long time.
Someone my age should have had more sense than to fall head over heels for a complete stranger. After all, there was the age difference —she was ninety years old— and besides that, it was obvious she had a heart of stone.
This lovely quote is from an article called ‘
The Star Maiden’. It's about one mans search for
Audrey Munson. It reads like the opening paragraphs of a time-crossed romance by
Jack Finney. If there are any authors reading this and would like to develop this into a story, please do so, I would love to see the result. I'm tempted to do it myself, but I'm not a very good writer.
"
Some of us drink because we're not poets" -
Arthur
To read the entire article go to
http://www.sweetandsourspectator.org/ar ... den_1.html
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